Is Troy the new Brooklyn?

July 21, 2014

To understand what this Troy-is-the-new-Brooklyn thing is about, you have to know something about Brooklyn and how it changed.

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From left to right: Paula Matt, owner of Henry Loves Betty, Margaret Partyka (cq), owner of Some Girls Boutique, Jim Barrett, owner of River Street Beat Shop, Judy Squires- Gleason, owner of Hippies...Witches and Gypsies, and Liam Barrett, also of River Street Beat Shop, pose outside of Henry Loves Betty, located on River Street in Troy, N.Y. on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The shop owners want to promote their storefronts by seeing an expansion of the River Street Farmers Market. (Tom Brenner/ Special to the Times Union)

From left to right: Paula Matt, owner of Henry Loves Betty, Margaret Partyka (cq), owner of Some Girls Boutique, Jim Barrett, owner of River Street Beat Shop, Judy Squires- Gleason, owner of Hippies...Witches and Gypsies, and Liam Barrett, also of River Street Beat Shop, pose outside of Henry Loves Betty, located on River Street in Troy, N.Y. on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. The shop owners want to promote their storefronts by seeing an expansion of the River Street Farmers Market. (Tom Brenner/ Special to the Times Union)